Rob Chavasse is an artist who specializes in conceptual installations and video projects. Chavasse’s work is often site-specific, and the artist favors materials like household appliances, and manufacturing goods and tools to help him address common systems and processes.

Some of Chavasse’s recent projects have seen the artist creating installations out of air-conditioning units, heat and electrical wiring, and even large palettes of shipped plasterboard. There’s an undercurrent of vaguely surreal humor in many of Chavasse’s works, like in Slow Dance, where a collection of household radiators sitting humming endlessly, connected to extension cables on a gallery floor.

Chavasse’s recent exhibition The Gallerist at The Sunday Painter in London saw the artist has compile a series of photographs documenting the 19-year friendship between Chavasse and the director of The Sunday Painter. These photos serve as fragmented memories, put on display for anyone to see and form observations and opinions about, while being obtuse enough to prevent any definitive interpretation.

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Dallas Jeffs is the Editor of Artist Run Website's blog. She is a recent graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she studied Critical and Cultural Practices. She is passionate about talking and writing about art, and sharing that interest with others. In her studio practice she is a painter, but she considers herself an art writer and educator foremost. If you like art, books and culture with a science fiction twist, check out Dallas' personal blog, HappySpaceNoises